Like it they were all funereal in their character: they began in sorrow and lamentation, they ended in joy; there was an aphanism, or burial; a pastos, or grave; an euresis, or discovery of what had been lost; and a legend, or mythical relation,all of which were entirely and profoundly symbolical in their character.

The piety of the age hid itself in monasteries; and these monasteries were as funereal as society itself.

The mortuary stress in the by-laws, however, need not signify that the lodge was more funereal than festive.